Tlbecker1 Posted July 28, 2022 #201 Share Posted July 28, 2022 5 minutes ago, Retired LEO said: Get use to it. It's here to stay. I hope so! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retired LEO Posted July 28, 2022 #202 Share Posted July 28, 2022 2 hours ago, GITC said: I must have missed the survey. What is your source of this information that the "majority" are in favour of the changes or is it just in this thread which I have yet to read entirely? Some dude that works for the cruise line mentioned the totally positive feed back regarding the change. I believe his name is Michael Bayley 😄 😂 3 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare John&LaLa Posted July 28, 2022 #203 Share Posted July 28, 2022 1 hour ago, GITC said: Everyone's entitled to their opinion which is what I did along with providing some feedback from C&A loyalty about WHY the change was made. I don't think it qualifies as a "crusade"...🤨 Perhaps the solution going forward is to give Diamond members a choice between their Seapass vouchers OR the Diamond Lounge. Wouldn't that be a satisfactory outcome and make everyone happy? Apologies, seemed like you were calling us lemings out. The more, however, that Diamond members fall into line and accept this downgrade, the more likely it is that it will never return. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare John&LaLa Posted July 28, 2022 #204 Share Posted July 28, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, Ocean Boy said: Voyager sails with approximately 3500 people. You polled them? Passenger levels have been half that lately😉 Should be easy for Ken and I to do a poll🍺 Edited July 28, 2022 by John&LaLa 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GITC Posted July 28, 2022 #205 Share Posted July 28, 2022 3 hours ago, Ocean Boy said: Voyager sails with approximately 3500 people. You polled them? Not these days it doesn't. We sailed with about 35% of capacity and I no more polled all of them than @OCSC Mike polled everybody he referred to. "Anecdotally" was the term used BTW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GITC Posted July 28, 2022 #206 Share Posted July 28, 2022 2 hours ago, Retired LEO said: Some dude that works for the cruise line mentioned the totally positive feed back regarding the change. I believe his name is Michael Bayley 😄 😂 I'm sure he is happy given that he's saving the corporation a pile of money (perhaps to help increase his bonus). I suppose I should be happier than I am about it as a shareholder but I'm not looking at it from that perspective. I see people are still concentrating on the 'polling' and have nothing to say about my proposed solution offered earlier. Hmm. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biker19 Posted July 28, 2022 #207 Share Posted July 28, 2022 6 hours ago, GITC said: I'm sure he is happy given that he's saving the corporation a pile of money Other than the ship level accountants, no one knows if the D drink perk change is costing RCI any more or less money. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ocean Boy Posted July 28, 2022 #208 Share Posted July 28, 2022 6 hours ago, GITC said: I see people are still concentrating on the 'polling' and have nothing to say about my proposed solution offered earlier. Hmm. I guess that means folks were not very impressed with it. 1 1 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare island lady Posted July 28, 2022 #209 Share Posted July 28, 2022 16 hours ago, John&LaLa said: 90% of my non suite drinks in SL get charged to my vouchers. Maybe more I noticed that as well. Having been in a GS and OS cabins the last 6 months on Harmony...it was always the same. They charged us on our vouchers...even for the wine and beer in the SL. Would have taken issue, if we had gone over our six vouchers due to that....but only happened once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare island lady Posted July 28, 2022 #210 Share Posted July 28, 2022 15 hours ago, taglovestocruise said: From a cruise ship hotel manager. This is not me. I have managed Hotels on cruise ships for nearly 30 years; 28 different ships for 18 different cruise lines. I have had 10s of thousands of tipped crew working for me over the years. Every few months we get some guest who thinks it’s cute to tip with strange currencies or denominations. The crew brings the odd bills and coins to me to see if I can change them for something that’s is useful to them. They cannot take the strange currencies home, as they cannot change them there. Many times they cannot find time or a location to change them during the cruise. Generally the crew purser will not accept any unusual coins or bills from the crew. So the crew is usually just stuck with them. After smiling at you when you hand them the strange bank note, they only remember the nitwit who thought he / she was being cute. $2 bills are a total challenge for a crew member to use. That is exactly what I was told as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare John&LaLa Posted July 28, 2022 #211 Share Posted July 28, 2022 3 minutes ago, island lady said: I noticed that as well. Having been in a GS and OS cabins the last 6 months on Harmony...it was always the same. They charged us on our vouchers...even for the wine and beer in the SL. Would have taken issue, if we had gone over our six vouchers due to that....but only happened once. I was referring to drinks there while in a cheapo cabin. My SL drinks while in a suite showed up in app, but the vouchers were still available elsewhere 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare island lady Posted July 28, 2022 #212 Share Posted July 28, 2022 Vouchers: Use in any bar on the ship (except robots) or Labadee/Coco Cay...at any time. Happy hour is now "any hour, any place we choose". Diamond lounge "free drinks": Stuffed into a small (and got even smaller on Oasis class) lounge with hard to find seats, long lines at the bar (or long wait for a waiter)...to guzzle in between dining times for 2 hours. IMHO...I will happily take the vouchers. Was not sure I would like the new program...but now find we love it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare island lady Posted July 28, 2022 #213 Share Posted July 28, 2022 4 minutes ago, John&LaLa said: I was referring to drinks there while in a cheapo cabin. My SL drinks while in a suite showed up in app, but the vouchers were still available elsewhere Nice...you just have the magic touch. 😉 Ours were always tabulated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davekathy Posted July 28, 2022 #214 Share Posted July 28, 2022 2 hours ago, island lady said: Vouchers: Use in any bar on the ship (except robots) or Labadee/Coco Cay...at any time. Happy hour is now "any hour, any place we choose". Diamond lounge "free drinks": Stuffed into a small (and got even smaller on Oasis class) lounge with hard to find seats, long lines at the bar (or long wait for a waiter)...to guzzle in between dining times for 2 hours. IMHO...I will happily take the vouchers. Was not sure I would like the new program...but now find we love it. We agree. 🍻 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare OCSC Mike Posted July 28, 2022 #215 Share Posted July 28, 2022 (edited) 3 hours ago, island lady said: IMHO...I will happily take the vouchers. Was not sure I would like the new program...but now find we love it. I wasn't sure either and since our 1st cruise post-restart was in a suite on Harmony (as you know), that didn't tell me anything since I had both (plus the 11-11 drinks) and I can't come close to drinking that much, lol. After 7 nights with just the vouchers last week, I'm definitely in favor of the new system. I enjoyed trying different stuff including frozen drinks at all hours rather than something boring in the DL every night. It was a no-brainer for my wife who doesn't really drink but is now happy to have a couple virgin daiquiris while in the Solarium or at Cococay and an occasional mudslide for dessert (yes, she's a big kid). Since we're not that far from D+, my goal is to properly use all 10 vouchers when we get there. Wife was only using 2-3 on average so I need to step it up a bit. 😁 Edited July 28, 2022 by OCSC Mike 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruisegirl1 Posted July 28, 2022 #216 Share Posted July 28, 2022 (edited) Just came from a dr. appointment and one question on their new computerized profile was "how many days on the past year have you had 4 or more drinks per day?" I was tempted to answer, " As many days as I cruised!" It actually allows you to input 366. (this was the second time I've had that question - the two Dr's must use the same program) The actual number is more like never. M Edited July 28, 2022 by cruisegirl1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquahound Posted July 28, 2022 #217 Share Posted July 28, 2022 4 hours ago, island lady said: Vouchers: Use in any bar on the ship (except robots) or Labadee/Coco Cay...at any time. Happy hour is now "any hour, any place we choose". Diamond lounge "free drinks": Stuffed into a small (and got even smaller on Oasis class) lounge with hard to find seats, long lines at the bar (or long wait for a waiter)...to guzzle in between dining times for 2 hours. IMHO...I will happily take the vouchers. Was not sure I would like the new program...but now find we love it. I totally agree. DW and I are loving the voucher system. FWIW, I'm not about to run a poll on a cruise to see who all likes/dislikes it. It's that sort of negativity that steers us away from the DL. We're on the ship to enjoy our cruise, not whine about company policies. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare OCSC Mike Posted July 28, 2022 #218 Share Posted July 28, 2022 12 minutes ago, Aquahound said: FWIW, I'm not about to run a poll on a cruise to see who all likes/dislikes it. It's that sort of negativity that steers us away from the DL. DL is very quiet and relaxing nowadays. Not enough people in there to run a poll. 🤣 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taglovestocruise Posted July 28, 2022 #219 Share Posted July 28, 2022 1 hour ago, OCSC Mike said: I Since we're not that far from D+, my goal is to properly use all 10 vouchers when we get there. Wife was only using 2-3 on average so I need to step it up a bit. 😁 It is a happy place to be. We turned D+ last year and wife only uses 3 or 4 vouchers. 7 for me works out great. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare island lady Posted July 28, 2022 #220 Share Posted July 28, 2022 2 hours ago, davekathy said: We agree. 🍻 LOL...yes, my friend...we usually do. 😉 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare island lady Posted July 28, 2022 #221 Share Posted July 28, 2022 1 hour ago, Aquahound said: I totally agree. DW and I are loving the voucher system. FWIW, I'm not about to run a poll on a cruise to see who all likes/dislikes it. It's that sort of negativity that steers us away from the DL. We're on the ship to enjoy our cruise, not whine about company policies. 😉 Yeah...some would like that whine with their cheese. 😄 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wineaux007 Posted July 28, 2022 #222 Share Posted July 28, 2022 I was skeptical about the vouchers in the beginning, but after three Royal sailings, it kinda/sorta works out for us. You can always supplement with rumrunners. 😉 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borisboy Posted June 13, 2023 #223 Share Posted June 13, 2023 Hi, we are just diamond members- if you don't use all your 4 drinks er day do they carry over? i.e. can you use then on another day? thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare OCSC Mike Posted June 13, 2023 #224 Share Posted June 13, 2023 (edited) 8 minutes ago, Borisboy said: Hi, we are just diamond members- if you don't use all your 4 drinks er day do they carry over? i.e. can you use then on another day? thank you No, they expire and reset to 4 at 5am. Many people will use "leftovers" at the end of the night for beer, soda, bottled water, Truly... anything in a sealed bottle/can you can store in your cooler for future use. Edited June 13, 2023 by OCSC Mike 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simon.hed Posted June 13, 2023 #225 Share Posted June 13, 2023 @island lady I have seen people almost put the rising tide bar in same category as the bionic bar, glad to see we arent the only ones who enjoy it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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